1st Edition
Natural and Artificial Bodies in Early Modern England Literature, Natural Philosophy, Objects
By Alvin Snider
Copyright 2025
226 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of nonhuman relations. Focusing on texts that cross the frontier between... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Silk: Robert Herrick’s “Upon Julia’s Clothes”
Chapter 2: Ice: Paradise Lost under Northern Skies
Chapter 3: Blood: Animal Transfusion
Chapter 4: Worlds: Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World
Index
Biography
Alvin Snider taught at universities in Canada, the United States, and France. He is the author of Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler and Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, USA.
